ircII project news

New ircII release out now
The ircII version 20170704 has been made available for public release.
See the ircII http server
for more details.

The main new features are UTF-8 fixes, log fixes, lastlog fixes, window
resizes fixes and a new resizer, macOS fixes.

New ircII release out now
The ircII version 20150903 has been made available for public release.
See the ircII http server
for more details.

The main new feature is using the final column of the display.

New ircII release out now
The ircII version 20141122 has been made available for public release.
See the ircII http server
for more details.

this version reverts the new window resize code as it is still buggy,
and fixes a couple of other minor bugs.
New ircII release out now
The ircII version 20141028 has been made available for public release.
See the ircII http server
for more details.

this version fixes some minor issues in 20140831, most importantly
a bug in the new window resize functionality.

New ircII release out now
The ircII version 20140831 has been made available for public release.
See the ircII http server
for more details.

this version fixes some minor issues in 20140824.

New ircII release out now
The ircII version 20140824 has been made available for public release.
See the ircII http server
for more details.

this version adds support for HTTP proxy and SSL IRC servers.

New ircII release out now
The ircII version 20131230 has been made available for public release.
See the ircII http server
for more details.

this version includes the UTF-8 support again.

New ircII release out now
The ircII version 20131228 has been made available for public release.
See the ircII http server
for more details.

New ircII release out now
The ircII version 20111115 has been made available for public release.
See the ircII http server
for more details.

New ircII release out now
The ircII version 20110228 has been made available for public release.
See the ircII http server
for more details.

New ircII release out now
The ircII version 20060725 has been made available for public release.
See the ircII http server
for more details.

New ircII release out now
The ircII version 20060721 has been made available for public release.
See the ircII http server
for more details.

New ircII release out now
The ircII version 20060705 has been made available for public release.
See the ircII http server
for more details.

ircII version 20050921 now supports utf8 languages.

New ircII release out now
The ircII version 20040820 has been made available for public release.
See the ircII http server
for more details.

New ircII release out now
The ircII version 20040212 has been made available for public release.
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for more details.

New ircII release out now
The ircII version 20030709 has been made available for public release.
See the ircII http server
for more details.

New ircII release out now
The ircII version 20030315 has been made available for public release. It fixes
several display problems introduced in 20030314.
See the ircII http server
for more details.

New ircII release out now
The ircII version 20030314 has been made available for public release.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS VERSION CORRECT SEVERAL BUFFER OVERFLOWS. All
of these flaws require server access, and can not be attacked by other
irc users, only servers.
See the ircII http server
for more details.

New ircII release out now
The ircII version 20021103 has been made available for public release.
See the ircII http server
for more details.

New ircII release out now
The ircII version 20020912 has been made available for public release.
See the ircII http server
for more details.

New ircII release out now
The ircII version 20020403 has been made available for public release.
See the ircII http server
for more details.

STATUS_CLOCK bug fixed!
The bug that causes the status-line clock to rarely update has finally be
fixed! You can depend on it only being a few seconds out now!

New ircII release out now
The ircII version 20020322 has been made available for public release.
See the ircII http server
for more details.

New ircII release out now
The ircII version 20020310 has been made available for public release.
See the ircII http server
for more details.

/WINDOW CREATE fixed!
The next release of ircII will include complete support for multi-session
displays via either screen(1) for text geeks, or xterm(1) for graphics heads.
There are also a lot of other random bug fixes. See the
NEWS
file for details.

New ircII release out now
The ircII version 20011210 has been made available for public release.
See the ircII http server
for more details.

New ircII release out now
The ircII version 20010612 has been made available for public release.
See the ircII http server
for more details.

Colour support now fixed!

New ircII release out now
The ircII version 20001231 has been made available for public release.
See the ircII http server
for more details.

New ircII release *really* coming soon!
The ircII version 20001231 has been made available for beta testing
the next release, due out very shortly. See the ircII
http server
for more details.

Note that ircII releases are no longer named via X.Y versions, but simply
a date in the format of YYYYMMDD.

bzip2 compressed used for archives
the bzip2 compression
program is now used for distribution, reducing the size by 25%. old
gzip versions will be made available for some time but not ever.

scrolling fixed
this feature has never worked properly. until now! see 4.4O or
later for this.

IPv6 support integrated
Arkadiusz Miskiewicz provided support for
IPv6 IRC that has been integrated into the master sources.

ICB support added
7 years after the first request for ICB support was received,
it finally becomes a reality! See the ircII-current support
below for where to get ICB enabled ircII! This client allows
multiple IRC/ICB connections from the one client, includes
some of the normal ircII /ON hooks. The /load icb
has also been provided add familiar ICB commands. See the
ICB and LOAD ICB help files.

New ircII release coming soon!
The ircII 4.4M beta version has been made available for beta testing
the next release, due out shortly. See the ircII
http server
for more details.

CAST-128 Encryption added
ircII 4.4I also includes CAST-128 encryption for both normal messages
(private or channel) and for dcc chat sessions. There is no key
management and thus it is very important that keys be synchronised
outside of ircII in a secure fashion. If someone can eaves drop your
key, why bother encrypt?

Many bugs fixed in ircII-current.
Since the successful ircII 4.4 release, several serious bug reports
have been received, and acted upon. Most of these new bugs are fixed
in ircII-current (and all of the serious ones have been). Check out
ircII-current.

ircII 4.4
was released on the 7th of December, 1997, the first release of
ircII in more than 2.5 years, since the April 1995 ircII 2.8.2 release.

ircII is included as a package in
NetBSD
the highly portable multi-platform operating system.